Science's Not Boring

Have you ever wondered how a massive metal cruise ship weighing 100,000 tons can float, but a tiny pebble drops straight to the bottom of the ocean? It seems completely backwards! Get ready to dive into the invisible, magical battle happening in the water every single day: buoyancy! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the wild secrets of why things float and why they sink....

Have you ever wondered what happens when you flip a light switch or charge your tablet? What is energy, and how does it power our entire world?! Join Mira and Finn on an electrifying adventure as they uncover the amazing secrets of where our power comes from! Did you know the sun blasts Earth with 173,000 terawatts of energy right now? If we catch just a tiny fraction of it with shiny solar panels...

Have you ever wondered what makes an ice cube, a glass of water, and steam from a kettle so completely different? Well, get ready to have your mind blown, because they are actually made of the exact same stuff! Join Mira and Finn as they zoom in super close to explore the amazing, invisible world of the states of matter! Did you know that a single tiny raindrop holds over one point six seven sexti...

Have you ever wondered what you, your chair, a glass of water, and a roaring T-Rex all have in common? They are all made out of the exact same tiny, invisible building blocks called atoms! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the ultimate microscopic secret of the universe. Discover how these mind-bogglingly small puzzle pieces work—if you blew up an apple to the size of pla...

Have you ever wondered why the sky lights up with a giant flash and rumbles with a booming crash during a thunderstorm? Join Mira and Finn as they uncover the shocking, sky-splitting secrets behind thunder and lightning! Did you know that a giant storm cloud acts just like a massive, floating battery? Inside towering Cumulonimbus clouds, freezing ice and water crash together to build up millions o...

Have you ever wondered how a magnet can magically pull a paperclip across a table without even touching it? It is like a real-life invisible superpower! Join Mira and Finn on an electrifying episode of Science is Not Boring as they uncover the invisible forces that shape our universe. Discover the amazing secrets behind every magnet's North and South poles, and learn how an ancient Greek phil...

Have you ever wondered what happens inside your body when you get sick? It’s not just resting in bed—there is an epic, invisible battle happening right under your skin! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they shrink down to discover the amazing built-in army that keeps you healthy. Did you know that a single sneeze blasts out of your nose at one hundred miles per hour, acting like a ge...

Have you ever wondered what your brain is up to when you fall asleep? Even though your body is resting, your brain is busy putting on a wild, technicolor show! We spend about six whole years of our lives dreaming, and the science behind it is absolutely unbelievable! Join Mira and Finn as they uncover the secrets of sleep and discover why our brains act like a giant filing cabinet at night. Did yo...

Have you ever wondered what exactly happens when you clap your hands? Where does the noise go, and how does it actually reach your ears? Join Mira and Finn on an exciting journey into the invisible world of sound waves! You will discover that every single sound is really a super-fast wiggle of air traveling at 767 miles per hour—that is as fast as a jet plane! Get ready to shrink down to a microsc...

Did you know your eyes are like two incredible, high-tech cameras working all day long? Join Mira and Finn as they explore the absolutely wild world of human vision! Discover how light bounces off objects and zooms right through your pupil (which is actually a tiny empty hole!) to hit over 130 million microscopic light-catchers at the back of your eyeball. You will be shocked to learn that the pic...

Put your hand on your chest... thump, thump, thump! Did you know that steady drumbeat is actually the hardest-working muscle in your entire body? Join Mira and Finn on an epic adventure inside the human body to discover exactly how your heart works! You won't believe the amazing science hiding just beneath your skin. Did you know your heart is only about the size of your fist, but it squeezes...

Have you ever wondered what happens to the leftover cosmic crumbs in outer space? Welcome to the wild world of asteroids and comets! Join Mira and Finn on an incredible journey to discover the giant space rocks whizzing around our Sun. You will learn all about asteroids, which are massive chunks of rock and metal that look like giant floating potatoes, and comets, which are dirty snowballs that gr...

Did you know that one single honey bee makes only one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her entire life? That is not even enough for one tiny bite of toast! Join Mira and Finn on a buzzing adventure to find out exactly what a honey bee is and how these amazing little insects make liquid gold! We will shrink down to step inside a busy hive packed with eighty thousand bees and discover their incredi...

Have you ever watched a bird swoop through the sky and wondered, how do they stay up there? Gravity wants to pull everything straight down, but birds have amazing natural superpowers to conquer the sky! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the fantastic physics and wild anatomy of our feathered friends! You will discover how a bird’s special curved wing, called an airfoil, t...

Have you ever looked up at the dark night sky and seen a streak of light flash by? You probably made a wish on a shooting star! But did you know that a shooting star isn't actually a star at all? It's usually a tiny piece of space rock or dust no bigger than a single grain of sand! Join Mira and Finn as they zoom into the amazing science of meteors and meteorites. Discover how these litt...

Have you ever wondered how animals play the ultimate game of hide and seek? Welcome to the mind-blowing science of camouflage! In this episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn explore how creatures use color, pattern, and shape to completely vanish in plain sight. Get ready to meet Chan's Megastick, a massive bug over two feet long that looks exactly like a bamboo shoot and literally d...

Have you ever wondered what it's like inside the wildest weather on Earth? Imagine winds howling faster than a race car and skies turning a spooky green color before a massive twister drops from the clouds! In this thrilling episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn dive right into the eye of the storm to uncover how Earth's biggest weather monsters are made! Discover the mind-blow...

Did you know that right now, even while you are sitting perfectly still, you are zooming through space at 67,000 miles per hour?! How is that even possible? Welcome to the incredible world of physics! In this episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn uncover the giant, invisible rulebook that controls how everything in the entire universe moves. Travel back to the year 1665 to meet a young s...

Have you ever looked up after a rainstorm and spotted a brilliant, glowing rainbow in the sky? It might look like a magical bridge, but it is actually mind-blowing science! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the incredible secrets hiding inside plain white sunlight. Did you know that rainbows aren't actually arches at all? They are giant, perfect circles! Or that no t...

Have you ever looked up on a clear, sunny day and wondered where all that brilliant color comes from? The air right in front of your face is completely invisible, so why is the sky so wonderfully blue? Get ready to blast off on a mind-blowing scientific adventure! We are traveling 93 million miles to the Sun to uncover the secret hidden inside white sunlight. It turns out, sunlight is actually a s...

Did you know you're currently flying through space at 67,000 miles per hour on a giant spaceship called Earth?! Hold on tight as Mira and Finn bust the biggest myth about summer and winter! Most people think we get hot in July because Earth flies closer to the Sun. But guess what? That is completely backwards! In the middle of summer, we are actually 3 million miles FARTHER away! So, why do w...

Have you ever wondered what happened to the giant T-Rex and the towering Brachiosaurus? For over one hundred and sixty million years, dinosaurs completely ruled the Earth! But sixty-six million years ago, almost all of them suddenly vanished. Grab your magnifying glass and join Mira and Finn as they solve the ultimate ancient cold case! Discover the mind-blowing story of a giant space rock—an aste...

Did you know that the biggest animal on Earth, the giant blue whale, used to walk on four legs like a wolf? Or that you share sixty percent of your DNA with a banana?! Get ready for a mind-bending adventure as Mira and Finn explore the amazing science of evolution! Discover how living things slowly shape-shift over millions and millions of years to survive in their changing environments. We'l...

Have you ever wondered how your voice travels to a friend on the exact opposite side of the world in less than a single second? Join Mira and Finn on an unbelievable scientific journey to find out! Discover the hidden magic inside your telephone. You'll learn how your vocal cords create invisible wiggling waves in the air, and how a tiny microphone translates those wiggles into zooming electr...

Imagine living on the International Space Station, zooming around the Earth at a mind-blowing 17,500 miles per hour! But what actually happens to your human body when there is absolutely no gravity holding you down? Hosts Mira and Finn are blasting off to explore the wild, weird, and wonderful effects of microgravity! Did you know that if you went to space right now, you would instantly grow up to...